upgrade procedure to 11iv1

[Adam Noble]

Hi all,

I'm trying to determine the best approach to take to put together a standard upgrade process for our remaining 11.00 servers. It appears cold install is the only sensible way to go judging by the success of update. I could create a golden image from an existing system but its not the cleanest way of doing things. I therefore thought I would build a system from the OS media and then generate a golden image from that to be used as a base.

I am maybe trying to be a bit clever and creating an OS depot on my ignite server but the upgrade documentation is not clear on the exact process. Basically the OS consists of 5 CD's (I'd have liked the DVD) and on CD2 is the enterprise edition OS. I am aware this includes the HPUXBase64 and HPUXBaseAUX bundle (well so it says within the guide) or does it???? I can see those packages on CD1 and not on CD2 therefore are they within the enterprise bundle or do I need to copy them to the depot aswell.....

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

My preferred approach is a cold install. A golden image of one system will speed the deployment of other systems.

This isn't cute, its a great timesaver.

You need to swcopy the entire Core OS DVD as part of the Ignite Golden Image prepartion process.
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-91049/ch07.html

SEP

[John Guster]

Ignite. It is my choice. Before ignite, you need split the root mirror. The mirror copy is for 2 reasons: first you can go back to 11.00 should upgrade fail; second, you can mount the old root volumes along with the new OS root volumes, copy over all the configuration files, it is like 2 systems in front of you...etc...

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom again,

You don't need to split mirrors before making the golden image.

Mirroring will not be preserved. Thats my experience using Golden images in the Ignite 4.x and 5.x days. Have not done this with Ignite 6.x

You can either do the mirroring after the install or write a post install script to do all the mirroing. I did this and ended up with mirrored systems.

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[John Guster]

Clarification on split mirroring: it is done on OS 11.00 before upgrade. This way you will have OS 11.00 and new OS 11.i on one system. Should upgrade fail, you can go back to old OS 11.00 immediately.
Cheers.